The doping material and 8 inch drivers have arrived and I have a good quotation for steel from a local supplier that works out cheaper than putting together bits of offcuts bought off fleapay. The cabs are stripped out including a bit of 38mm plastic piping used as the reflex tube. Each cabinet just...

Cheers Doc.

Steel quote received from a local supplier. If this project is a success, I plan to recycle the steel & drivers into a Cube 1 sized build (the steel is sized appropriately to accomplish this). When stuck down with Bison Kit, can the steel be removed easily for reuse (I've not used contact adhesi...

OK Doc. I'll stick to the steel.

Nice analogy! Anyway, I'll try to post some snaps of the project as it develops. Sand/resin ought to be rigid if less massy.

I recently acquired a pair of Omar 252 monitors for very little money with a view to an experimental Doc Mod rebuild. They actually sounded pretty decent, but something was not right in the upper midrange / lower treble. Using a tone sweep it turned out to be some buzzing and distortion from one of ...

Not sure K, I can do mains cables, speaker cables and interconnects but amp innards are a mystery to me!

Armstrong A521 pictured on this thread: http://www.audio-talk.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2524

I am retired

However, before this I was a university lecturer (business information systems) for 20 years preceded by 10 years in industry and secondary level teacher a couple of years before that.

Almost certainly no correlation. However, what is much more interesting is the psychology of how we listen to recorded music . For example, for some people, pace, rhythm and timing are everything. For others, being able to unravel the elements with very transparent systems and pinpoint 3D imaging ar...